The project in five facts.
Challenge, approach and results.
Wood, as a renewable natural resource, represents a traditional building material in the Slovenian forested landscape. Due to its accessibility and specific physical-structural characteristics, it has culturally and ethnologically marked architecture and construction throughout the centuries. As a cheaper alternative to naturally grown solid wood, materials made from wood waste, remnants and inferior wood species have recently proved themselves.
Problem
Wood, as a renewable natural resource, represents a traditional building material in the Slovenian forested landscape. Due to its accessibility and specific physical-structural characteristics, it has culturally and ethnologically marked architecture and construction throughout the centuries. In modern times, it is particularly valued for its natural beauty and decorative qualities, as well as for the return to nature and the desire for a healthy way of life.
It is characterised by versatile usability, simplicity, relative lightness, toughness, hardness, load-bearing capacity, shape stability and resistance.
Results
As a cheaper alternative to naturally grown solid wood, materials made from wood waste, remnants and inferior wood species have recently proved themselves. Water-resistant multi-layer (bonded and glued) panels made of solid wood and panels made of sawn timber represent good, homogeneous, usable and statically suitable façade material, the quality of which depends on the binding agent, i.e. gluing and the thickness of the covered veneers. The durability, longevity, aesthetics and technical functionality of wooden façades depend on the correct choice of wood type and quality, on solving the problems of exposure to weather influences, water and moisture, on the appropriate choice of the method of treatment, manufacture, execution and fastening (screwing) of wooden elements, and finally on appropriate, constant and careful maintenance of the façade.
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